Name
Our Climate Conference
Topic
Geography
Learning time
7 hours
Designed time
7 hours
Size of class
16
Description
Students must hold a real conference, which will be invited to assist other teachers, classmates, parents, stakeholders. Their role will be the representatives of the various continents and they have to decide topics, organization and speech of this conference.
Aims
To Know: factors and elements of climate; the climatic zones on earth; climate change. Skills:mother and foreign language; learn to learn; spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship; collaboration; critical thinking.
Outcomes
Knowledge, Application, Synthesis, Evaluation
Editor
bartolomeo.corbo
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The little book of climate
60 minutes)
  • Discuss
    5
    16
    0
    Brainstorm: The words of climate. The students discuss and write the words about climate and weathers.
  • Read Watch Listen
    5
    16
    1
    The student watch a video
  • Produce
    5
    1
    0
    Everyone produce a list of terms
  • Discuss
    5
    16
    0
    Teacher and students all together decide a list of the most important terms about climate
  • Collaborate
    5
    1
    Every student put the terms in Mentimeter's Word Cloud created by teacher. So they can see the most eight important terms about climate.
  • Investigate
    10
    1
    1
    Each student receives a word to explain with precision. He must look for meaning on the web and write it down on a slip.
  • Collaborate
    25
    8
    0
    Every student must realize his "little book", writing his word with his own meaning and then must ask to his friend the other words with they meaning and write on his little book. So, at the end, every student will have its comprehensive booklet with eight words.
Notes:
The students use their own device (BYOD) The booklet can be created by folding an A4 sheet so you have a little booklet of eight pages
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Choose your continent and decide the topic
60 minutes)
  • Collaborate
    5
    16
    0
    Teacher determines the groups for work. Every group elects its own speaker.
  • Discuss
    10
    16
    0
    Each group chooses a continent to be represented and about which will have to prepare the speech at the conference.
  • Investigate
    30
    4
    1
    In group of 4, students explore the website "NASA's eyes on the Earth" and decide the topic of their own speech.
  • Discuss
    15
    16
    0
    Each group presents the topic of its speech and together they decide the lineup of conference
Notes:
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Design your speech
120 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    20
    3
    Teacher present some tools for presentation: Adobe Spark; Tackk; Prezi.
  • Collaborate
    20
    3
    1
    Each group decides how best to present the problems of their continent. They decide the tool that will be used and prepare the speech.
  • Produce
    80
    3
    0
    Each group produce its speech by the choose tool.
Notes:
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Review your speech
60 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    10
    16
    1
    Teacher briefly presents the work of each group. He invites the groups to review the work of the others work. He explains the system to correct the work.
  • Collaborate
    30
    3
    0
    Each group reviews the speech of an another group
  • Discuss
    20
    16
    0
    Speakers presents the observations to reviewed works.
Notes:
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Prepare the conference
60 minutes)
  • Collaborate
    20
    16
    0
    The students plan location of conference
  • Produce
    40
    16
    0
    Students prepare for the conference room with tables, chairs,flags, placeholder. Students prepare invitations to distribute to teachers, parents, etc.
Notes:
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Celebrate the conference
60 minutes)
  • Practice
    60
    16
    0
    The students celebrate the conference. The speakers present speech and presentation of own group. Each member of group listens to the public questions and answer.
Notes:
Attached you can find the assessment rubric
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